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Most of you that know me, know that I am an old git and therefore - by definition - I have been playing games for alot longer than most of you.
THe first thing I remember was when one of my mates bought a Sinclair ZX81 - we bought a magazine and input the code to make it move a blob from the bottom of the screen to the top - wow !
And then - I went to Felixstowe one Sunday and wandered into the arcade to play pinball with my cousin and they had one of them there new fangled Pong machines that we had read about in the newspaper. Many a coin ( was it 2p a go ? 5p a go ? - I can't remember !) was inserted into the machine and we had a great laugh. Yes people - Pong - the original machines - not some emulated version.
Then there where what for me where ther arcade classics, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Frogger, Pacman, Galaxians, Phoenix, Scramble and Pole Position - All of which were played on the original cabinets in Arcades and Pubs and all of which gobbled up much of my hard earned pocket money, paper round money and my first proper wages.
The next thing was the Intellivision console that my dad bought - wow we can play pong at home and football ( five pong bats !) and basketball (The goal in a slightly different place) but this was still not gaming heaven.
Next came the Atari (2600 I think it was - I'm fast losing grey cells!) with great games like dog fight and tank battle, Pacman and Defender. Still had some good times playing on it but there was still something missing...Along came the Spectrum with it's pyscadelic loading screens and some of the greatest one more go type games ever. Look for Manic miner on the web - download it and don't give up after the first go - persevere if you can - it's a great game and typifies the Spectrum era.
Still havn't found my defining moment yet though (sorry if I'm boring you all !)
Lot's more time spent in Arcades playing the likes of Pentathlon, Outrun, Commando's etc and many hours wasted away with the Sega Master System and Game gear and then it stopped....
I was growing up, had responsibilties, a house, a wife - getting too old for all that old gaming stuff - had much more important things to be doing and to be geting on with, The first child came along as well - more responsibilties.
And then I started to hear about something different - Playstation - It had been around for about 18 months and the papers were full of the news that the price had dropped again - from the original price of 300.00 down to 200.00 and now down to 150.00 - My wages had been slowly going up and suddenly I thought that I could afford one - damn it I wanted one so after a few weeks of discussion as to wether or not we could really afford to spend that sort of money on a "toy" we finally agreed to it - in the car and straight over to toys R us - Checked out the bundle deals and finally settled for the PSX together with Doom, Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot and F1. All for the princely sum of 260.00.
And finally we come to the defining moment - we got the Playstation home, took it out of the box - inserted F1 and turned it on..... That was it - the defining moment was when the PS logo appeared and the Sony tune first played. Wow - this is what games consoles have become I thought - we were then both transfixed watching the opening video for F1.
Yep we enjoyed the game immensly and that was it - I was hooked into gaming again - since then we have had N64, Dreamcast, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance, PS2 and most recently Gamecube.
So that's that - Flanders defining gaming moment was watching the PS logo for the first time - Now you all now that I am as sad as you always suspected.
THe first thing I remember was when one of my mates bought a Sinclair ZX81 - we bought a magazine and input the code to make it move a blob from the bottom of the screen to the top - wow !
And then - I went to Felixstowe one Sunday and wandered into the arcade to play pinball with my cousin and they had one of them there new fangled Pong machines that we had read about in the newspaper. Many a coin ( was it 2p a go ? 5p a go ? - I can't remember !) was inserted into the machine and we had a great laugh. Yes people - Pong - the original machines - not some emulated version.
Then there where what for me where ther arcade classics, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Frogger, Pacman, Galaxians, Phoenix, Scramble and Pole Position - All of which were played on the original cabinets in Arcades and Pubs and all of which gobbled up much of my hard earned pocket money, paper round money and my first proper wages.
The next thing was the Intellivision console that my dad bought - wow we can play pong at home and football ( five pong bats !) and basketball (The goal in a slightly different place) but this was still not gaming heaven.
Next came the Atari (2600 I think it was - I'm fast losing grey cells!) with great games like dog fight and tank battle, Pacman and Defender. Still had some good times playing on it but there was still something missing...Along came the Spectrum with it's pyscadelic loading screens and some of the greatest one more go type games ever. Look for Manic miner on the web - download it and don't give up after the first go - persevere if you can - it's a great game and typifies the Spectrum era.
Still havn't found my defining moment yet though (sorry if I'm boring you all !)
Lot's more time spent in Arcades playing the likes of Pentathlon, Outrun, Commando's etc and many hours wasted away with the Sega Master System and Game gear and then it stopped....
I was growing up, had responsibilties, a house, a wife - getting too old for all that old gaming stuff - had much more important things to be doing and to be geting on with, The first child came along as well - more responsibilties.
And then I started to hear about something different - Playstation - It had been around for about 18 months and the papers were full of the news that the price had dropped again - from the original price of 300.00 down to 200.00 and now down to 150.00 - My wages had been slowly going up and suddenly I thought that I could afford one - damn it I wanted one so after a few weeks of discussion as to wether or not we could really afford to spend that sort of money on a "toy" we finally agreed to it - in the car and straight over to toys R us - Checked out the bundle deals and finally settled for the PSX together with Doom, Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot and F1. All for the princely sum of 260.00.
And finally we come to the defining moment - we got the Playstation home, took it out of the box - inserted F1 and turned it on..... That was it - the defining moment was when the PS logo appeared and the Sony tune first played. Wow - this is what games consoles have become I thought - we were then both transfixed watching the opening video for F1.
Yep we enjoyed the game immensly and that was it - I was hooked into gaming again - since then we have had N64, Dreamcast, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance, PS2 and most recently Gamecube.
So that's that - Flanders defining gaming moment was watching the PS logo for the first time - Now you all now that I am as sad as you always suspected.
My defining gaming moment? I'll say it again and again, it would have to be Flash back on the Mega Drive. It was sheer brilliance. You had to do normal things to get to places. Rather than breaking into a shop and killing everyone in there, you'd have to get a job permit and apply for a job. I'm trying to find someone on here that has played it. Streets of Rage was my first beet-'em-up, and since nothing has come close. I can't see any replay value in the beat-'em-ups today, just the continuous punch and kick does get very repetative.
And then, the Play Station. Lara Croft in Tomb Raider really made gaming known in society. It wasn't just a thing that young boys did in their spare time, it made gaming a house hold thing. I've recently got a PS2 and a GC, and the games that have been announced on the GC sound very appealing.
And then, the Play Station. Lara Croft in Tomb Raider really made gaming known in society. It wasn't just a thing that young boys did in their spare time, it made gaming a house hold thing. I've recently got a PS2 and a GC, and the games that have been announced on the GC sound very appealing.
Dunno what the console was, but I was three and you put tapes in. I remember playing Space Invaders, some Pac Man type game, and Aligator Arithmatic. :)
But first finding out about Destruction Derby and then playing it beats the crud out of everyhing else.
But first finding out about Destruction Derby and then playing it beats the crud out of everyhing else.
Flanders wrote:
>I am an old git
;-)
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I remember playing Zulu on the Commodore 64, what a crap game that was - strangly I used love it! (bah I was only a nipper...)
Once kick off was released on the C64 I went crazy with excitement, it was probabaly the first football game id ever played and that was probabaly why because why on earth would I enjoy some fat looking characters trying to kick a ball around is beyond me!
Amiga's were the highlight of my gaming career, Super Cars II, Goal and who can forget Sensible World of Soccer? - some of my favorite games of all time were on the Amiga - damn I miss it :S
Mario and Sonic mania followed with release's on the Snes and Megadrive, which kept me amused for several hours :)
Metal Gear Solid/Vice City/ProEvo were the most recent defining revelations in gaming for me.
I should be doing work.
Meh.
I blame Flanders.
>I am an old git
;-)
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I remember playing Zulu on the Commodore 64, what a crap game that was - strangly I used love it! (bah I was only a nipper...)
Once kick off was released on the C64 I went crazy with excitement, it was probabaly the first football game id ever played and that was probabaly why because why on earth would I enjoy some fat looking characters trying to kick a ball around is beyond me!
Amiga's were the highlight of my gaming career, Super Cars II, Goal and who can forget Sensible World of Soccer? - some of my favorite games of all time were on the Amiga - damn I miss it :S
Mario and Sonic mania followed with release's on the Snes and Megadrive, which kept me amused for several hours :)
Metal Gear Solid/Vice City/ProEvo were the most recent defining revelations in gaming for me.
I should be doing work.
Meh.
I blame Flanders.
Winning my first GAD was cool...
When my PS2 arrived...
Watching The Matrix was a very defining moment.. opened my eyes.
ooohh and that time my grancha gave me my first worthers original... oooh yeah, heaven in my mouth...
No particular gaming moment to come to mind, might not have had it yet... But, realising you could do almost anything in GTA:VC was quite exhilirating...
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Why?
When my PS2 arrived...
Watching The Matrix was a very defining moment.. opened my eyes.
ooohh and that time my grancha gave me my first worthers original... oooh yeah, heaven in my mouth...
No particular gaming moment to come to mind, might not have had it yet... But, realising you could do almost anything in GTA:VC was quite exhilirating...
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Why?
Ha, that Metal gear CD case thing, I was looking for the frequency to be printed in the corner or something, or hidden in the serial number. I gave up thinking it must have been referring to the US version or something. Of course I never bothered looking at the goddamn screenshots!
My definitive moment could well be the same as Flanders. I bought my Playstation, went home and fired up F1. Incredible. Never looked back!
My definitive moment could well be the same as Flanders. I bought my Playstation, went home and fired up F1. Incredible. Never looked back!
Here's a few for you:
Popping a game into my PS2 and seeing the old SEGA logo on the screen.
Playing Skies of Arcadia on the Dreamcast for the first time.
Racing a Castrol Honda GTX around the Autumn Ring on Gran Turismo (the original), and whilst flying towards a barrier at around 160 mph the music started to reach it's crescendo, and just as I managed to wrestle control back of the car and miss the barrier by what must have been millimetres, the music peaked and went back to its normal beat. Lalo Schifrin couldn't have orchestrated it better.
Final Fantasy.
Spending 2 hours in Metal Gear Solid looking for a CD case on which a door unlock code was printed, then realising that the code was actually printed on the BACK INSERT OF THE CD CASE THAT THE GAME CAME IN!!! Inspired.
Winning my first GAD.
Winning my second GAD. (etc).
Playing X-Wing in the arcades for the first time in 1983.
Playing Buck Rogers in the 25th Century on the Megadrive and starting to realise just how deep games could actually be in terms of how much there was to do in them.
Playing PilotWings on the SNES and discovering a whole new meaning of the word 'gameplay'.
Discovering that smashing barrels could actually be an interesting activity in itself whilst playing Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance.
Blowing Sniper's head off for the first time in Unreal Tournament.
Popping a game into my PS2 and seeing the old SEGA logo on the screen.
Playing Skies of Arcadia on the Dreamcast for the first time.
Racing a Castrol Honda GTX around the Autumn Ring on Gran Turismo (the original), and whilst flying towards a barrier at around 160 mph the music started to reach it's crescendo, and just as I managed to wrestle control back of the car and miss the barrier by what must have been millimetres, the music peaked and went back to its normal beat. Lalo Schifrin couldn't have orchestrated it better.
Final Fantasy.
Spending 2 hours in Metal Gear Solid looking for a CD case on which a door unlock code was printed, then realising that the code was actually printed on the BACK INSERT OF THE CD CASE THAT THE GAME CAME IN!!! Inspired.
Winning my first GAD.
Winning my second GAD. (etc).
Playing X-Wing in the arcades for the first time in 1983.
Playing Buck Rogers in the 25th Century on the Megadrive and starting to realise just how deep games could actually be in terms of how much there was to do in them.
Playing PilotWings on the SNES and discovering a whole new meaning of the word 'gameplay'.
Discovering that smashing barrels could actually be an interesting activity in itself whilst playing Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance.
Blowing Sniper's head off for the first time in Unreal Tournament.
Most of you that know me, know that I am an old git and therefore - by definition - I have been playing games for alot longer than most of you.
THe first thing I remember was when one of my mates bought a Sinclair ZX81 - we bought a magazine and input the code to make it move a blob from the bottom of the screen to the top - wow !
And then - I went to Felixstowe one Sunday and wandered into the arcade to play pinball with my cousin and they had one of them there new fangled Pong machines that we had read about in the newspaper. Many a coin ( was it 2p a go ? 5p a go ? - I can't remember !) was inserted into the machine and we had a great laugh. Yes people - Pong - the original machines - not some emulated version.
Then there where what for me where ther arcade classics, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Frogger, Pacman, Galaxians, Phoenix, Scramble and Pole Position - All of which were played on the original cabinets in Arcades and Pubs and all of which gobbled up much of my hard earned pocket money, paper round money and my first proper wages.
The next thing was the Intellivision console that my dad bought - wow we can play pong at home and football ( five pong bats !) and basketball (The goal in a slightly different place) but this was still not gaming heaven.
Next came the Atari (2600 I think it was - I'm fast losing grey cells!) with great games like dog fight and tank battle, Pacman and Defender. Still had some good times playing on it but there was still something missing...Along came the Spectrum with it's pyscadelic loading screens and some of the greatest one more go type games ever. Look for Manic miner on the web - download it and don't give up after the first go - persevere if you can - it's a great game and typifies the Spectrum era.
Still havn't found my defining moment yet though (sorry if I'm boring you all !)
Lot's more time spent in Arcades playing the likes of Pentathlon, Outrun, Commando's etc and many hours wasted away with the Sega Master System and Game gear and then it stopped....
I was growing up, had responsibilties, a house, a wife - getting too old for all that old gaming stuff - had much more important things to be doing and to be geting on with, The first child came along as well - more responsibilties.
And then I started to hear about something different - Playstation - It had been around for about 18 months and the papers were full of the news that the price had dropped again - from the original price of 300.00 down to 200.00 and now down to 150.00 - My wages had been slowly going up and suddenly I thought that I could afford one - damn it I wanted one so after a few weeks of discussion as to wether or not we could really afford to spend that sort of money on a "toy" we finally agreed to it - in the car and straight over to toys R us - Checked out the bundle deals and finally settled for the PSX together with Doom, Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot and F1. All for the princely sum of 260.00.
And finally we come to the defining moment - we got the Playstation home, took it out of the box - inserted F1 and turned it on..... That was it - the defining moment was when the PS logo appeared and the Sony tune first played. Wow - this is what games consoles have become I thought - we were then both transfixed watching the opening video for F1.
Yep we enjoyed the game immensly and that was it - I was hooked into gaming again - since then we have had N64, Dreamcast, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance, PS2 and most recently Gamecube.
So that's that - Flanders defining gaming moment was watching the PS logo for the first time - Now you all now that I am as sad as you always suspected.
THe first thing I remember was when one of my mates bought a Sinclair ZX81 - we bought a magazine and input the code to make it move a blob from the bottom of the screen to the top - wow !
And then - I went to Felixstowe one Sunday and wandered into the arcade to play pinball with my cousin and they had one of them there new fangled Pong machines that we had read about in the newspaper. Many a coin ( was it 2p a go ? 5p a go ? - I can't remember !) was inserted into the machine and we had a great laugh. Yes people - Pong - the original machines - not some emulated version.
Then there where what for me where ther arcade classics, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Frogger, Pacman, Galaxians, Phoenix, Scramble and Pole Position - All of which were played on the original cabinets in Arcades and Pubs and all of which gobbled up much of my hard earned pocket money, paper round money and my first proper wages.
The next thing was the Intellivision console that my dad bought - wow we can play pong at home and football ( five pong bats !) and basketball (The goal in a slightly different place) but this was still not gaming heaven.
Next came the Atari (2600 I think it was - I'm fast losing grey cells!) with great games like dog fight and tank battle, Pacman and Defender. Still had some good times playing on it but there was still something missing...Along came the Spectrum with it's pyscadelic loading screens and some of the greatest one more go type games ever. Look for Manic miner on the web - download it and don't give up after the first go - persevere if you can - it's a great game and typifies the Spectrum era.
Still havn't found my defining moment yet though (sorry if I'm boring you all !)
Lot's more time spent in Arcades playing the likes of Pentathlon, Outrun, Commando's etc and many hours wasted away with the Sega Master System and Game gear and then it stopped....
I was growing up, had responsibilties, a house, a wife - getting too old for all that old gaming stuff - had much more important things to be doing and to be geting on with, The first child came along as well - more responsibilties.
And then I started to hear about something different - Playstation - It had been around for about 18 months and the papers were full of the news that the price had dropped again - from the original price of 300.00 down to 200.00 and now down to 150.00 - My wages had been slowly going up and suddenly I thought that I could afford one - damn it I wanted one so after a few weeks of discussion as to wether or not we could really afford to spend that sort of money on a "toy" we finally agreed to it - in the car and straight over to toys R us - Checked out the bundle deals and finally settled for the PSX together with Doom, Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot and F1. All for the princely sum of 260.00.
And finally we come to the defining moment - we got the Playstation home, took it out of the box - inserted F1 and turned it on..... That was it - the defining moment was when the PS logo appeared and the Sony tune first played. Wow - this is what games consoles have become I thought - we were then both transfixed watching the opening video for F1.
Yep we enjoyed the game immensly and that was it - I was hooked into gaming again - since then we have had N64, Dreamcast, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance, PS2 and most recently Gamecube.
So that's that - Flanders defining gaming moment was watching the PS logo for the first time - Now you all now that I am as sad as you always suspected.